John C. Dugan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John C. Dugan
John C. Dugan

John C. Dugan is the current and 29th Comptroller of the Currency for the United States Department of the Treasury.

The Comptroller of the Currency is the administrator of national banks and chief officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC supervises about 1,710 federally chartered commercial banks and about 50 federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States (as of December 31, 2007), comprising more than half the assets of the commercial banking system. The Comptroller also serves as a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, and NeighborWorks America. In September 2007, Comptroller Dugan was appointed Chairman of the Joint Forum, which is a group of senior financial sector regulators from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia that deals with issues common to the banking, securities, and insurance industries, including supervision of conglomerates.

Comptroller Dugan was the assistant secretary for domestic finance in 1992 and served in Department of the Treasury from 1989 to 1993. Before that he was minority counsel and minority general counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, from 1985 to 1989. He also served as director of Minbanc, a charitable organization, and was a member of the American Bar Association's committee on banking law.

He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with a JD from Harvard Law School. Mr. Dugan is married with two children.

[edit] News and Information

[edit] References